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http://www.epicgames.com/press_ps3.html

EPIC GAMES TO OFFER UNREAL® ENGINE 3 FOR DEVELOPMENT OF GAME TITLES
ON “PLAYSTATION ®3” FROM SCEI

Epic Games’ Intends to become a tools and middleware licensee
for “PLAYSTATION ®3” platform

RALEIGH, May 17th, 2005 – Epic Games, one of the world’s leading developers of cutting-edge computer and video game titles and the pioneer of the award-winning Unreal® Engine, announced today that it intends to offer its Unreal Engine 3 technology and tools under Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.’s Tools and Middleware program for “PLAYSTATION ®3” as soon as the license program is started.

“We are committed to making Unreal Engine 3 the best game engine for the “PLAYSTATION ®3”, said Tim Sweeney, CEO and co-Founder of Epic Games. “We plan to offer it to our licensees as soon as the program is underway and we are very excited about the level of performance and visual quality we will be able to deliver on this platform. In addition Unreal Engine 3 should be an excellent fit for the platform and our licensees will benefit immensely from the experience we have been able to gain thus far working with it.”

About Unreal Engine 3

The award-winning Unreal Engine is known for cutting-edge graphics and a best-of-breed toolset. Unreal Engine 3 is expected to maintain those features while adding massive world support, multi-processor support, next-generation console optimizations, and one of the most mature tool pipelines in the industry. Unreal Engine 3’s new toolset is designed specifically to accelerate developers' productivity for ultra-complex, next-generation content. Additional information on Unreal Engine can be obtained at www.unrealtechnology.com.

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[Pedigree Chum]

So basically every PS3 developer will get middleware and UE3.0? That's crazy.

Also there was a rumor that DMA will be using UE3.0 for the next GTA. That would be awesome.

 

[Doom_Bringer]

YAY!!

 

[Agent Icebeezy]

I think EA is crying now over lost Renderware contracts

 

[CosmicGroinPull]

Pervert!!

 

[Yusaku]

So basically every PS3 developer will get middleware and UE3.0? That's crazy.

Also there was a rumor that DMA will be using UE3.0 for the next GTA. That would be awesome.

Renderware was looking nice on PS3 as well, though.

 

[rc213]

Epic must be rolling in the dough right about now. They probably have like 3 or 4 dump trucks outside waiting to dump money in front of their offices. :lol

 

[Wax Free Vanilla]

GTA 4 on UNREAL® ENGINE 3?


Can the engine handle huge, living streaming environments? And yeah I agree on the EA tears, looks like it will be EA exclusive now that Renderware middleware. :lol

 

[blackadde]

I've always preferred id engines over their Epic counterparts but UE3 sounds like a monster. Congrats!

 

[Excelion]

So basically every PS3 developer will get middleware and UE3.0? That's crazy.

read again

We plan to offer it to our licensees

UE3 licence = $1 million

 

[Doom_Bringer]

I've always preferred id engines over their Epic counterparts but UE3 sounds like a monster. Congrats!

sorry dude id engines are only good for rendering corridors. Unreal 3.0 all the fucking way.

 

[Mooreberg]

Also there was a rumor that DMA will be using UE3.0 for the next GTA. That would be awesome.

Take 2 using the most popular game to publicize an alternative to EA's renderware... sounds likely when you think of it.

id and Valve must be crying themselves to sleep. They were there with hot shit just before all the next-gen hoopla kicked off, and now Epic has swooped in.

 

[Pedigree Chum]

GTA 4 on UNREAL® ENGINE 3?


Can the engine handle huge, living streaming environments? And yeah I agree on the EA tears, looks like it will be EA exclusive now that Renderware middleware. :lol

There was the GoW tech demo a GDC that had a HUGE (SUPAH HUGE) city rendered beautifully in real-time. It was a sight to behold.

 

[Pedigree Chum]

read again


UE3 licence = $1 million

Ah, I can see a lot of devs going for that. It's a one time 1mil up front cost for the engine right?

 

[Doom_Bringer]

There was the GoW tech demo a GDC that had a HUGE (SUPAH HUGE) city rendered beautifully in real-time. It was a sight to behold.

na that was alright, you should check out the Namco's Frame City. It looks incredible but has some animation problems. Truly some incredible graphix.

 

[Agent Icebeezy]

Engines is how iD got all it's money, time for Epic to do it.

 

[Drek]

A Take 2/Epic teamup would make perfect sense. Epic is just foraying into the console middleware battlegrounds, and GTA was a big part of putting Renderware on the map, so they're the ideal partner to launch UE3 off of. For Take 2 they get to avoid further business with EA and would likely get phenominal support from Epic since Epic would want the game to look like a real flagship title.

I'm praying for it, because GTA of all franchises could most use a big graphics leap.

Can the engine handle huge, living streaming environments?

Its shown some impressive capabilities already, plus on the PS3 you have a system designed for fast data streaming, thanks to the Blu-Ray 6x drive. Epic sounds like they plan on really tricking the engine out for the PS3 as well.

 

[DCharlie]

wow, UE3 is gonna clean up on Xbox 360 and PS3.

congrats to Epic indeed!

 

[blackadde]

sorry dude id engines are only good for rendering corridors.

SoF, SoF2, RTCW, JK2, D3:CDIT @ Doom3World ... etc.

 

[Mooreberg]

Engines is how iD got all it's money, time for Epic to do it.

They've been doing for a while now with PC games, even some console stuff like UbiSoft's games. But they're really gonna clean up now.

I'm just glad that what is going to become something that gets used a lot is actually quite impressive. The number of renderware games this gen was overkill, and not many of them looked so hot.

 

[Guy LeDouche]

Congrats to Sweeney and the whole team. Everything I've heard about them is for the positive. Great team, really friendly and helpful, fantastic tools and support, etc.

 

[Kleegamefan]

During the UE3/Gears of War demo during GDC 2005, the guy doing the demo (Marc Rein? Tim Sweeny?) showed a level with an armored car driving through the game world and were talking about how the engine would start to stream in level data when it "sensed" the player was getting close to the next level.....

They specifically mentioned UE3 could be used in a GTA-type game....

Perhaps UE3 will be used in the Next-gen GTA itself....